Where Zebus Speak French

This story follows Ly, among Madagascar's last peasant orators. Amid political promises, he defends cultivated land from urban encroachment. His children, aided by his eldest daughter and artists, stage a defining show of farmers' struggles. Manipulating puppets, they aim for mass media attention, turning the film into a powerful tool against manipulation.  

'I dreamt of a "Kabary" film! A film built, in its very form, around the humour and oral culture of my fellow peasants and my ancestors. The 'Kabary' is an argumentative speech, a baroque and metaphorical reading of reality, resulting from observation of nature and human beings which, after a few wanderings, makes sense in the end. I dare to alternate between lightness and seriousness. In Antananarivo, to express the absurd or even despair, we usually say "mampihomehy," "that makes one laugh". Laughing at injustice rather than crying, resisting rather than pitying.' - Nantenaina LOVA